Last words of Karl Marx

[Yefim Zverev]

Discovered this video by chance

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[Rooster]

I'm not sure if that's true or not. I mean, I haven't read a biography of Marx but I was under the impression that he died in his chair and they just found him that way the next morning.

[Delenda Carthago]

Nice video.

[Yefim Zverev]

I believe he said that. Seems pretty consistent considering his philosophy and thinking.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Winston Churchill's was probably the most badass. :cool:

[Bostana]

I Like the Music.

[Luc]

Fuck yeah Marx is #1!

[Yefim Zverev]

I Like the Music.

Me too... Then you ll like this one too

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10 More last words... Mao Zedong & Che Guevara included

[Bostana]

I love Karl Marx's last words

[Fennec]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2347889&postcount=27


To my knowledge, these "last words" first appeared in Peter Bushell's 1983 book "London's Secret History."

Engels's letter Friedrich Adolph Sorge, 15 March 1883: "Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 – which is the best time for visiting him – I arrived to find the house in tears. It seemed that the end was near. I asked what had happened, tried to get to the bottom of the matter, to offer comfort. There had been only a slight haemorrhage but suddenly he had begun to sink rapidly. Our good old Lenchen, who had looked after him better than a mother cares for her child, went upstairs to him and then came down. He was half asleep, she said, I might come in. When we entered the room he lay there asleep, but never to wake again. His pulse and breathing had stopped. In those two minutes he had passed away, peacefully and without pain."

An excerpt from Engels's speech on Marx's funeral at Highate Cemetery, 17 March 1883: ""On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever."

[Zukunftsmusik]

the source on george washington's quote is fox news. just sayin.

i liked churchill's best.

[Mr. Natural]

The last words attributed to Marx appear to be fiction. Here is an authentic "last word" from Marx given to the American journalist, John Swinton in the summer if 1880 while Marx, who looked like Father Christmas by then, lovingly watched over has grandchildren at a beach. This is from Francis Wheen's Marx: A Life (1999), which isn't a particularly good biography.

"I [Swinton] interrupted the revolutionist and philosopher in these fateful words: 'What is?'
"And it seemed as though his mind were inverted for a moment while he looked upon the roaring sea in front and the multitude upon the beach. 'What is?' I had inquired, to which in deep and solemn tone he replied, 'Struggle!' At first it seemed as though I had heard the echo of despair; but peradventure it was the law of life."

My red-green, struggling best.